Post No. 811 - The search for community

When I was a kid, I learned how to sail, and became involved in the sailing clubs of a couple of places we lived. The experience was novel to me and, with my enthusiasm for history, I became fascinated with the “traditions” of the sea –things like always going to help vessels in distress, and “the romance” of sail (no Internet links as everything seemed to be based around finding a relationship partner  “romantic” cruises and the like).

Now, although the traditions of the sea and romance of the sail do exist, I was a bit naïve about all this:

• there were economic drivers behind many of the situations that put people at risk, economic drivers (e.g., enabling the growth of empires) that I do not see very favourably now;
• there were “less admirable” traditions that I selectively didn’t acknowledge (although my adoptive father pointed me in the direction which led to me finding them out), things such as bullying crews, insurance claims that killed crews, and the appalling working conditions and life expectancy generally of crews from the era I was holding in such esteem – see here, here (and here), here;
• there was also the involvement of marine traffic in slavery, and things like gunboat diplomacy.

(Incidentally, real historical pirates were sadistic and violent  criminals, doing things like rape, torture, murder and locking women and children in a burning church, although they did have some democratic aspects.)

Closer to home, there was the aggressive behaviour of many competitive sailors (usually not the case with the best sailors, I have to say) – a fault I also exhibited at times, to my eternal shame, and which is a small part of the reason I am not rushing to get involved with sailing clubs again. (I avoid yacht clubs because, in my parlance, they’re the province of the upper class / elite, and involve expenditures of money that are, at times, truly obscene [if you don’t have money, most sailing dinghies need crews, so go to a sailing club, learn how to sail, make a commitment, and enjoy :) ]. And I have been treated shabbily by some of those four decades ago although I was welcomed and very well treated by two such clubs in Melbourne when we were training for the Gay Games in Sydney, so things have probably changed.)

There is also endemic discrimination in most of the sailing clubs I’ve been to – even nominally LGBT sailing clubs have discrimination, and the vast majority are white people from the middle and working class. My experience of such discrimination is something I’ve contributed to those trying to stamp that out (e.g., see the AYF’s policy – which has a few key gaps and silences, particularly on the offence of misgendering and the vexed issue of access to changing rooms, but is a start in the right direction), but it has left me with a profound wariness of returning to those environs at any time soon. I also want to write about the discrimination against women and others I’ve come across in sailing clubs in a “how to” book on sailing that I’ve started (and may not finish this lifetime … SIGH). To quite an extent, this problem reflects the problems of society – hence, in the 70s, women were largely expected to run the canteen, whereas now, there is an increasing acceptance of women as active participants in a range of sports, not just sailing – although there is still a way to go …

Elsewhere, I’ve generally been much warier of any sense of connection, belonging or community  – for instance, I never expected – nor received - that from work (I’m there to do a job and get paid), nor – perhaps because of my early experience with “Sunday neochristians” - from many of the religious / psychic / spiritual pathways I’ve been on (and I have been particularly surprised by, for instance, some of the nastiness of western followers of Buddhism, and some of social/human rights backwardness of some Spiritualists), until I came across Wicca. Finally, I though, I had found a place to “belong”.

In terms of some of the people I found there, that was certainly true, but I’ve subsequently discovered that there are some inherent problems in Wicca with respect to LGBT people (because Wicca is, when all is said and done, a fertility religion, and that has been broadly interpreted with a heteronormative bias), and I wound up identifying as a Pagan – a step taken knowing the tensions, splits and altercations in those communities. (Incidentally, I’ve never considered following Asatru or becoming Heathen because of the minorities there who are racist – and are opposed [see here, and here, for instance. This site is also a good source of objective information.)

So … from a generic point of view, what I’ve written about so far suggests that groups one can apply to join or have events one can go along to are rarely perfect (that includes my experience of nudists and polyamory groups – for instance, I’ve come across blatant transphobia in both). That just means you have to decide whether membership involves any unacceptable conflicts with your principles, and, if it does, either leave or, if it is for the Greatest Good, possibly consider advocating for change.

What about other groups – ones you don’t formally apply to join.

Well, most people would probably consider family to be a “good” example of such a group. I, on the other hand, am aware of the problems – sometimes quite profound – that can exist in families: control, abuse, domestic violence – including abuse by children, and so on. Many families are either good or no worse than neutral, but the simple truth is that families as a generic group cannot be relied on to be a nurturing community for everyone.

In my opinion, the best source of community comes from those people I term “my family of choice”: friends.

Of course, I have expectations around such friendships built predominantly on acceptance, compassion and liking –the sort of so-called friendship where people think they can be interventionist – particularly over what are essentially differences of opinion – do not, in my view, count as a friendship.

 

[1] BPM = Balanced Positive (spiritually) Mature. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see here, here, here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr, Pagan Energy Worker, Wéofodthegn

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible.

The real dividing line is not between Christianity and Islam, Sunni and Shia, East and West. It is between people who believe in coexistence, and those who don’t.

Tom Fletcher, Former UK Ambassador to Lebanon

• If your “gut” (your instinct/intuition) is telling you something is wrong, but logic and the available evidence is saying otherwise, the proper conclusion to draw is that you need better, more personally credible evidence. Your “gut” could be wrong, right, or missing the nuances / “shades of grey” . So could the available evidence.
• All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...

Tags: about me, connectedness, discrimination, family, friends, history, sexism, society, well being,

First published: Manadagr, 11^th January, 2016

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Monday, 11^th January, 2016

Post No. 666 - Working with the Classical Elements for Health

I read fairly widely, taking what is beneficial and ignoring or discarding the rest - after suitable meditation and/or cautious testing. Some of the reading I have been doing recently is from the Gnostic path.

I've found a few gems there, and want to talk about one of those, but I reject utterly their view that the world (and sex - or consensual non-heteronormative sex) is inherently 'bad', and to be rejected and 'overcome' (my words). I written elsewhere about why I consider physical reality exists, and also about the cycles ('Yugas') of the world, and that I consider such views an outcome of the current Kali Yuga - views that no-one would even contemplate during other Ages. In fact, some of it is just downright uninformed and unspiritual bigotry.

The gem I want to talk about, is the idea of the elements within the body.

This has come up elsewhere, but the material I was reading led to me crystallise some thoughts on that: specifically, using the concept of elements to 'diagnose' and balance one's energetic state.

I first came across this in the teachings of Touch for Health, 30 years ago - but based on the Chinese elements. What I have done now is develop a visualise that, as with the Bow Balance Exercise, can be used as a tool for diagnosis. That tool is a visualisation of a pentagram, with my association of elements that I have developed for each of the arms of the pentagram (that doesn't mean this is right, just that it is convenient, as a result of four decades or so of habit, for me to use - although I've always found people representing Aether at the top), and then ask my Higher Self / BPLF Guides (I don't feel that this is an exercise for Patron Deities, but you may) to show the state of energy by weakening or reducing each arm to show a lack of a particular element, and making the arm brighter or bigger to show when there is an excess of an element.

The pentagram's associations that I use are:

(I would have used yellow for air, but that is too faint to be seen)

You may find another order of the elements works better for you.

I basically direct my attention to each chakra or meridian or major organ/part of the body in turn, visualise the pentagram, ask for it to be adjusted, and then channel the lacking energy to that place. Of course, to do this, one needs to be able to comfortably generate the missing energy. I do that by meditating on the nature of the element, drawing whatever vestiges of that I have within my being, or that I can access via my Higher Self / BPLF Guides or - with permission - my parallels, and channel that to the area. Visualising the colour (and any other sensory associations you have) also helps.

As with the meditation-clearing I do for the world each Sunday, this is a preventative technique. If an energy imbalance has come into physical existence, you will also need to address it from the physical.

[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr, Wéofodthegn

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible.

I am a Walker upon the Path of Balanced Positivity, seeking Spiritual Maturity.

• neither eloquence nor inarticulateness inherently indicates correctness, but, as words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
• Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if  the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
• I mourn the desecration of the term 'Light Worker' by commercial interests, and the warping of the word 'Light' away from 'Clear Light' by the "(Fluffy) White Lighters".
• Presuming that everyone has, or wants, a smartphone is discriminatory, unspiritual, and downright stupid.
• Our entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people, places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability about Life.
• May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
• Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal.
• Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
• The means shape the end.
• My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
• All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...

Human dignity is the inherently cumulative holistic combination of human rights, wellbeing and potential, and all actions or interaction which promote, realise or facilitate same. The converse also applies: whatever degrades, diminishes or robs humans of dignity, is inherently undignified.

Gnwmythr

The “purpose” of spiritual evolution is not the attainment of “spiritual perfection” - not in the sense of not having to evolve further, at any rate, since there is no such thing. We need to evolve in order to grow - but we can take rest breaks (hopefully well earned :) ) along the way. No, the “purpose” of evolution is, rather, to perfect our ability to learn, and thus grow.

Gnwmythr

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious.

Jane Elliott

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.

(based on writing by) Edmund Burke

We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

Tags: Bow Balance exercise, chakras, elements, healing, health, meridians, psychic health, visualisation, well being,

First published: Manudagr, 2^nd March, 2015

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Monday, 2^nd March, 2015

 

Post No. 626 - Reading

G'day, hello, howdy, hi, zdravstvujtye (some of my work colleagues are Russian, including an absolutely invaluable administrator who has recently taken maternity leave - may she and young one and family be blest), guten tag (where I have connection owing to a recent past life), sveiki, czesc (I have friends, not just colleagues, at work who are Polish), bonjour (colleagues at a former workplace were French, and we practised and tried to extend my woeful and limited range of this language), selamat pagi (one of the best junior engineers I ever worked with was Malaysian, and she taught me a few words), annyeonghaseyo, pryvit, bitaem, como vai (a friend of mine a few years ago, although not Brazilian, had Portuguese ancestry), ¡Hola (a former work colleague and friend, a VERY talented artist - with a Mexican sensibility to her artwork, particularly around the Day of the Dead - used to teach me Mexican Spanish), Selamat pagi, ni hao (ah, my work trips to Asia, and the many wonderful, wonderful people I have met there - and some excellent work colleagues and friends here, as well), bongiorno (my current home city of Melbourne has lots of Greeks and Italians, who have made our culture far richer - and made us coffee snobs :) ), hoschakal, hejsan, ciao, jo napolt kivanu, chào bà, chào ông, yiassou (from the city which has, I understand, the largest collection of Greek people outside of Greece), ceau, salam wa aleikum, sawas dee ka, dia duit, hoi, hei, namaste, marhaba, dobry den.

Well, after a hectic few weeks, I'm going to start trying to catch up with a few things on this blog, beginning with the reading links I've accumulated.

• one of the many follow up posts to Ferguson: https://thracianexodus.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/while-white/;
• a source of rituals for solitary Druids – and others (found via The Wild Hunt). These were written by “Teo Bishop” while his spiritual path went along the path of Druidry: http://druidnetwork.org/what-is-druidry/rites-and-rituals/solitary-druid-fellowship/;
• interesting interview (I came across a blog somewhere recently where someone combined Hinduism and Paganism): http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/gita-my-basis-for-counselling-hindus-in-us-military/article6605265.ece?homepage=true&utm_source=MostPopular&utm_medium=Homepage&utm_campaign=WidgetPromo;
• http://polytheist.com/wyrd-ways/2014/11/18/resacralizing-our-world/;
• I hope many other women read this and think: http://www.dailylife.com.au/dl-beauty/tracey-spicer-this-is-what-i-look-like-without-makeup-20141115-3kfbl.html;
• and this: http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/you-need-to-know-about-the-ugly-girls-club-20141204-120b9t.html;
• I’ve come across reports like this before: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-05/study-finds-yoga-helping-women-recover-from-breast-cancer/5945932;
• the UN has concerns about police in the USA: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-05/united-nations-urges-us-to-look-at-police-accountability/5945616;
• http://polytheist.com/spring-and-stone/2014/12/03/roman-sewage/;
• www.dailylife.com.au/dl-people/dl-entertainment/local-gamer-is-contacting-the-mums-of-boys-who-threaten-to-rape-her-20141201-3lju5.html;
• http://www.theage.com.au/comment/how-to-end-the-war-on-women-20141205-120ba9.html;
• http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/more-school-principals-threatened-by-violent-parents-20141203-11zgos.html;
• another excellent post, this one of a personal and mystical nature, from the excellent Rhyd Wildermuth, on The Wild Hunt: http://wildhunt.org/2014/12/column-grey-is-every-blue.html;
• I like the referred to book title in this article, which argues that Arthur Calwell deserves a more nuanced assessment: “The Long, Slow Death of White Australia”: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/the-speech-that-changed-australia-20141206-1208h3.html;
• I think this attempt at explaining survival after death is incredibly complicated and based on an incorrect assessment (or acceptance) of evidence, but at least science might be stumbling towards the truth, as it has been known by mystics for millennia: http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/new-scientific-theory-explains-the-soul-and-afterlife/’;
• http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141205-the-man-with-two-hearts;
• http://paganinparadise.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/pagan-trolls-call-for-non-action.html;
• http://paganinparadise.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/ten-pagans-who-made-difference-in-2014.html;
• http://polytheist.com/polytheist-parent/2014/12/08/playground-politics/;
• a YouTube clip from the Correllians about (spirit) rescue for pets, but with some good comments worth keeping in mind generally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NmCqCPOJ0s&list=UUc8FGWoAdNgs94c-p1g12SA, and on ‘ghosts’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuPB_Ub3wdA&list=UUc8FGWoAdNgs94c-p1g12SA;
• another clip from the Correllians about Goddess vs. God (if you watch this, keep in mind my different version of polarity at http://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2014/09/fiery-magickal-law-of-taijitu.html): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vPiFIuoK1c&list=UUc8FGWoAdNgs94c-p1g12SA;
• some common sense from the Correllians, and a viewpoint that I can relate to (“One size does not fit all”) – particularly with one ***wit I had the misfortune to come across who insisted that large crystals cannot be in the house, and others who make dire warnings about all sorts of trivial matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAGw8rDZtTk&list=UUc8FGWoAdNgs94c-p1g12SA;
• my partner recently spent a few days visiting friends, and was struck by how much noise they had – TVs or radios, or both, constantly going. It was nice to get home to our peaceful, QUIET home. As a society, we have far too much noise pollution generally, and I consider many people do this partly out of fear – fear of what they might find (themselves) or do (think!) if they didn’t have such constant distraction … * slaps self on wrist * Ah well, here is a nice article about how Einstein sought silence – even went sailing for it, apparently (may I get to go sailing again soon – and regularly: I’ve had enough of city life for an incarnation or three): http://www.theage.com.au/comment/genius-found-inspiration-in-silent-spaces-20141213-124t52.html;
• a good argument for de-cluttering our lives for the sake of happiness: http://www.dailylife.com.au/life-and-love/real-life/does-having-less-make-us-happier-20141213-3mhvm.html;
• a nice article by a young person about the overemphasis on Year 12, one which brings to mind something I tell most young Uni graduates I start working with in my day job (engineering), which is that their Uni degree is just a Licence to Start Learning … : http://www.theage.com.au/comment/vce-is-over-can-i-start-learning-now-20141214-126qok.html;
• a somewhat strange article to me, but may be of some use for thinking about relationships: http://www.dailylife.com.au/life-and-love/real-life/what-your-frenemies-are-doing-to-your-health-20141212-125qzz.html;
• I recently came across this article on The Wild Hunt, which was basically a reasonable article, I considered: http://wildhunt.org/2014/12/pronouns-and-gender-together-forever.html. Then I started reading the comments, and was reminded why I do not allow comments on my blogs: trolls. I had planned on posting a comment, but most of what I wanted to say had been covered, except that misgendering can and does kill people – around half a dozen trans people I’ve known to some extent have committed suicide because of this and other discrimination in the last quarter century, and I know trans people who have experienced much higher numbers of people committing suicide. The thing that particularly struck me about the comments was that these are people with allegedly connections to more inclusive religions … I sit next to a very nasty person in my day job: conservative (neo-liberal), utterly uninformed, and resistant to any form of consideration of minority groups. He’s not uncommon, sadly, in engineering, and I’ve grown to expect such from too many people in engineering (people who are, in my view, often emotionally incompetent – or worse: one workplace bully from my past comes very close to meeting the definition of psychopath, but that is actually more a reflection on how companies manage human beings), which is why I’m seeking a career change. I’ve come across discrimination in Paganism as well (and elsewhere – such discrimination is why I no longer have anything to do with Spiritualism, and why I do NOT endorse movements like the Charter for Compassion, which has the same sort of head-in-the-sand denial that goes with people who try to avoid identifying gender in the workplace and think that is actually a solution to anything, whereas it is actually such a problem that I am actually actively against such movements because they are agents of the enforced invisibility which is one of the hallmarks of discrimination), but I consider this some of the most blatant and offensive I’ve come across anywhere for some time;
• http://necropolisnow.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/greece-crete-and-cyprus-is-word.html;
• http://wiccaeducation.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/it-is-appropriate-to-call-contemporary.html;
• http://enchantedfeydream.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/remembrance-i.html;
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ULBusYUs8;
• http://www.thorncoyle.com/blog/2014/12/11/cycles/;
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMZ37gQ5xN4, and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_-IAS5EQL0a1Z1RvR3iaVg;
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sABGtrOyKus;
• http://egregores.blogspot.com.au/;
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJukimRf6_U;
• slightly different take on grounding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3mxmirPvhk.

and more generally:

• the dangers of tailgating – which should be obvious: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/motorcyclist-dead-another-injured-after-monash-freeway-crashes-20141117-11o0bu.html;
• http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/11/27/4112244.htm;
• dangers of undercooking food - the temperature concerned is something I’ve come across before, and I know that at least one take away chain changed their cooking temperature in response to a contamination problem at another food chain (see here and here), but at least one of local TV cooking competition shows uses temperatures that I personally would be concerned with: http://www.abc.net.au/health/thepulse/stories/2014/12/04/4142326.htm;
• a good move that would reduce food wastage enormously: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-05/nrn-odd-bunch/5942314?WT.ac=localnews_melbourne;
• some good news, in my opinion: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-05/keogh-grand-theft-auto/5944916;
• http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/is-it-offensive-to-call-women-girls-20141123-11s5qr.html;
• http://www.dailylife.com.au/life-and-love/parenting-and-families/yumi-stynes-looking-at-that-photo-of-my-daughter-now-i-could-cry-20141209-123nqj.html;
• http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/why-is-sarah-wilsons-selfhatred-and-sickness-blog-making-people-so-angry-20141127-11ubn4.html;
• having an air gap is something that Bruce Schneier recommends: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/taiwan-a-canary-in-the-coalmine-of-cyber-warfare-20141207-120v73.html;
• there have been articles about this before, so this is just one more story in the long line of studies needed before people accept the truth on some issues: http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/why-running-is-not-your-knees-worst-enemy-20141206-11zvqk.html;
• some much needed police action in the lead up to the so-called “silly season”: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/police-blitz-on-cyclists-on-sydney-road-one-of-worst-for-crashes-20141207-122du8.html;
• some common sense reality: http://www.watoday.com.au/comment/vaccinating-our-children-against-preventable-horrors-20141207-1215wh.html;
• this is not just men, it can happen to women who are the sole breadwinner as well: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/lonely-men-lose-friends-when-life-gets-busy-study-20141210-1248jq.html;
• I think this is confusing Hyper-Sensitive Person with Aspergers: http://theotherside.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/theory-finds-that-individuals-with-aspergers-syndrome-dont-lack-empathy-in-fact-if-anything-they-empathize-too-much/.

[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").

Love, light, hugs and blessings

Gnwmythr, Wéofodthegn 

(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … Would-be drýicgan or maga ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me at 9 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible. 

I am a Walker upon the Path of Balanced Positivity, seeking Spiritual Maturity.

• neither eloquence nor inarticulateness inherently indicates correctness, but, as words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
• Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if  the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
• Our entire life experience, with all the many wondrous and varied people, places and events in it, is too small a sample for statistical reliability about Life.
• May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
• Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal.
• Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
• The means shape the end.
• My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
• All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...

Human dignity is the inherently cumulative holistic combination of human rights, wellbeing and potential, and all actions or interaction which promote, realise or facilitate same. The converse also applies: whatever degrades, diminishes or robs humans of dignity, is inherently undignified.

Gnwmythr

The “purpose” of spiritual evolution is not the attainment of “spiritual perfection” - not in the sense of not having to evolve further, at any rate, since there is no such thing. We need to evolve in order to grow - but we can take rest breaks (hopefully well earned :) ) along the way. No, the “purpose” of evolution is, rather, to perfect our ability to learn, and thus grow.

Gnwmythr

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious.

Jane Elliott

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing.

(based on writing by) Edmund Burke

We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

Tags: abuse of power, asceticism, common sense, discrimination, Druid, health, meditation, perspective, racism, reading, rituals, sexism, society, well being,

First published: Fryrsdagr, 19^th December, 2014

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Friday, 19^th December, 2014